Man On A Street

They say "Necessity is the mother of invention". . . I would add "Comfort is the killer of creativity." Steve Jobs did advise creatives to "Stay hungry." I'm not a fan of Steve Jobs but i think this time he's right. Many of the greatest artistic works were done under trying times -- a stressed Michelangelo (lying on his back on a platform while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling) said "Jeez! -- I'm no painter!. . ." I'm not saying an artist should love suffering -- i only notice when an artist is most secure and content, the quality of his works become -- how do i say it -- "just-for-compliance," frivolous -- lacking spiritual power, compared to works done while experiencing life's trials . . . An artist is a kind of prophet -- Jason Mraz calls himself the "Curbside Prophet" -- given special insight into life. So an artist has the duty to call people's attention to better things -- to uplift their spir...

I don't know what to call these symbols yet — the working name is 'psycons' – I think this scheme is better than the old  ♀♂ -- it shows attraction, gender and relationships. Psycons in action . . .     You're lucky, if you and your partner have complementary sex, gender and receptivity combinations -- natural falling in love requires natural receptivity. Or else, without love, you may be subjecting your partner to the Jabba-The-Hutt Experience (of Princess Leia in 'Return of the Jedi' heheh). [to be continued . . .]

I talked recently about caregivers and then wham! -- Friendster pasted this picture on my homepage [edit: and on this page, I see]: Be a caregiver in the UK The Fates think they've been tempted [more like the Furies]. Ah, well . . . "whom the gods wish to destroy . . ." More Irony. . . At the moviehouse: Two techie sounding moviegoers criticizing 'Iron Man' for taking off by bending his wrists at an angle like a feminine male androreceptive -- "He's soo gay!" They did not notice their own weenie whiny voices -- they sounded like the ones they were lambasting. A funeral car ('San Fernando,' a funeral parlor in Cebu) blasting "Designer Music" along the way from delivering the day's last trip . . . Life goes on then . . .

A friend on YM chat shared his problems about his father getting sick and how medical expenses mount up everyday -- i told him i understand -- having had my aunt get sick of failed kidneys and how, for two years, we had to sell things off left and right, buying time, and how we all were miserable seeing her die a slow death (not much of a way to live.) The worst part is that his father did something hurtful to his family before, and now, is dependent on his family's unity -- the irony. But, for my friend, his family is his strength so . . . We switched topic to something lighter -- how he's currently amazed by Arnel Pineda and his fairy-tale rise to fame with 'Journey'. And, since i'm quick to rain on people's parades [crabby me], I immediately pointed out that Americans admire us and grade us for sounding like Americans (can't help it -- i'm currently a call cenner agent, trained on American accents and imitating them to keep a low profile) -- we have a...

There's this concept of 'synchronicity' -- seemingly unrelated events that have a connection because -- how do i say it -- they all occur because of the times they are in -- 'spirit-of-the-times' (yeah, dat's it). Of course, without the person to point it out, we won't know of the sync (yeah, right -- the old tree-falling-in-the-forest routine) -- and more recently the term has also been applied to people's innate ability to recognize patterns and to the patterns themselves -- even Cosmic Patterns (but i'm going off track). What I wanted to share was the TV show my housemates watched yesterday (I don't normally watch Sunday noontime concert shows [another aspect of that circle jerk that passes off as competition between the two (Philippine) networks waddahel). Noontime shows (prepare to pick up your IQ 25 floors down after watching) have a lot of commercials -- depending on the time of day and target audience. I watched the Nido milk commercial -...

I was asked today by an irate American caller why he is being made to pay surcharges used to fund the war of 1812 -- Huh? (war against England) I played along and learned that there's a feeling of resentment by some Americans about Puerto Rico -- being treated as "an American province yet the citizens don't pay taxes" . . . "Are you an American?" -- this after i confessed ignorance of American war history (except that 'war' between America and Philippines). Thereupon (naks!) he softened and went into an analogy of how Puerto Rico is to the US as Falkland Islands is to the UK (more :| ) -- Well, there's certainly the opinion that might makes right -- i write this just after an American customer in the Internet cafe talked loudly at the counter how he spent two hours writing emails and failed to send them (why he had to wait for two hours before calling the attention of the attendant is beyond me) -- he complained ("I'm talking, let me fin...